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What Is an Author?

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What Is an Author?

Summary

What Is an Author? is a literary work[1]. What Is an Author? ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What Is an Author? authored Michel Foucault[3].
  • What Is an Author?'s instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • What Is an Author?'s instance of is recorded as chapter[5].
  • What Is an Author?'s genre is recorded as essay[6].
  • What Is an Author?'s publication date is recorded as +1969-00-00T00:00:00Z[7].
  • What Is an Author?'s Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bbznp5[8].
  • What Is an Author?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?'}[9].
  • What Is an Author?'s author name string is recorded as James Faubion[10].
  • What Is an Author?'s ELMCIP ID is recorded as 13345[11].

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Works and Contributions

What Is an Author? authored Michel Foucault[3].

Why It Matters

What Is an Author? ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[2] What Is an Author? has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

Related Entities

literary work Michel Foucault

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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